PEORIA -- For shooting a person last year outside a South Peoria gas station, a Peoria man was sentenced this week to nine years in prison.

PEORIA - Almost $700 in currency and four television sets were reported stolen from an East Bluff residence, according to police.

DEERFIELD - Caterpillar Inc. directors voted Wednesday to maintain the quarterly 86-cent-per-share dividend, the company said in a statement.

Crime survivors from across Illinois will travel to Springfield on Thursday to ask for more services for trauma recovery throughout the state.

HENNEPIN - Several area fire departments have been called to Marquis Energy, an ethanol plant in Hennepin for what appears to be a large fire Tuesday.